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THE PERRY MEMORIAL 

And Centennial Celebration 

Under the auspices of the National Government and the 
States of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, 
New York, Rhode Island, Kentucky, Minnesota and Indiana 




Published by Direction 
of the 

Inter-State Board of the 
Perry's Victory Centennial Commissioners 

^ ' Introduction by 

Henry Watterson 



General Offices 
CLEVELAND, OHIO 





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Introduction 

Whatever \vc may or may not be, we Americans can scarcely 
l)c called a memorializing people. We seem indeed readier to 
accept tlie self-assertion of the living than to erect monuments 
In the dead. Long ago lUirnuni, the showman. (H^cn\ered that 
even as the average Englishman dearl}- love> a lord does the 
average Yankee dearly love a lumibug. It is to the women of 
our land that we are indebted for the stately shaft in honor of 
Washington which towers over the National Capital, as well as for 
the ownership of Ah)unt X'ernon. Latterly Lincoln has been 
coming to a pro]:»er recognition. Hut when we look for visible 
signs of the saints and sages, the heroes and martyrs of other 
days, we discover that they are few and far between and very 
hard to tind. 

In luu-ope. go where you will, you may not come upon a 
A-illage or hamlet that boasts not some expression of pious homage 
and local ])ride in bronze or marble, some "storied urn or animated 
bust," recalling the life and deeds of the great man who was born 
there, whilst the parks, the streets and the ])ublic ])laces of the 
cities and towns are everywhere ennobled and beautified by the 
imagery, inspired by the nomenclature of the past, vitalizing 
history and educating and elevating the people. 

Arotind the Great Lakes, as we call our inland oceans, with 
Chicago, the world-famous, for an axis, flanked by Milwaukee, 
the Queen City of Wisconsin, and Detroit, the h'airy Goddaughter 
of Michigan — sailing from Duluth to Buffalo — tarrying awhile at 
Toledo and Sandusky and Erie — shame u])on them! — we look, 
with a single exception, in vain for some evidence that less than 
an hundred years ago there lived a man named Oliver Hazard 
Perry, and, save as a fishing resort, that there is, or ever was a 
place called Put-in- Bay. 

All honor to the single exception I Tn Cleveland, that miracle 
of modern jirogress, which carries ( )hio'> challenge to the Great 
Xortlnvest and gives her rivals on either hand a run for their 
money, we do learn that, on the lOth of September, 18Li, a battle 
was fought by Oliver Hazard Perry in the waters of Put-in-Bay, 
which enabled the victor to relate that "we have met the enemy 
and they are ours !" 

Next after John Paul Jones stands Oliver Hazard Perry. 
Jones brought the American RcvolutiiMi home to England. Perry 
drove England back behind the barricades of her New I-'rance. 
The fight off Scarl)()rough Head in the North Sea told the world 



that if England was the mistress of the sea, America was master. 
The fight off Put-in-Bay rescued the territory conquered by 
George Rogers Clark and wiped out the disgrace of Hull's sur- 
render. Jones laid the cloth for the French alliance. Perry 
cleared the way for Harrison's advance and shortened the dis- 
tance between Bladensburg and the Treaty of Ghent. But, above 
all, it was Perry, like Jones, who gave the world assurance of 
a man, of an American and of America, the resistless, the uncon- 
cjuerable; of the flag, the glorious, the wonder-breeding; of the 
Union, the imperishable. Over every frontispiece from the 
Aurora Borealis to the Southern Cross, over every temple of 
liberty and trade, over every arena of manly prowess and pro- 
ductive achievement, blazing in letters of living light, as Webster 
would have said, shine forever the letters that spell the words, 
"We have met the enemy and they are ours." 




Pyramid of Cannon Balls on Put-in-Bay Tsland, marking the Graves of American and British 

Officers killed in the Battle of Lake Erie. This humble tribute, erected from the 

proceeds of an Amateur Theatrical Entertainment on the Island, is 

the only recognition which a grateful Nation has hitherto 

bestowed upon the sacrifices of these heroes. 



It was a marvelous battle, a magical victory. The story reads 
like a page out of the impossible. Truly is there a destiny that 
governs the world and rules in the lives of men. The young 
subaltern, rusting and fretful in the little Rhode Island seaport; 
the longed-for call to action and the instant answer of the minute 
men ; the sudden apparition of a fleet in the harbor of Erie as 
though some wizard hand had touched the forest and commanded 



its trees of oak and ash to rise and sail the deep; the thunder of 
the guns carrying Freedom's message of defiance; the havoc, the 
repulse, the running of the gauntlet of fire and blood from ship 
to ship. Let me read you the brief, immortal storw I take it 
from the graphic narrative of John Clark Ridpatli. 

The Lawrence, Perry's ilagship, began to suiifer dreadfully under 
the concentrated lire of the enemy. First one gun and then anutlier 
was dismounted. The masts were broken. Tlie rigging of the vessel 
was rent away. The sails were torn to shreds. Soon she yielded no 
longer to the wind, l)ut lay helpless on the water. 

On the deck death held carnival. The American sailors lay dead 
and dying on every hand. During the two hours that l^erry faced his 
antagonist his men were reduced to a handful. Entering the 'action 
the Lawrence had a crew of officers and men numbering a hundred 
and three. Of these, by 2 o'clock in the afternoon, eighty-three were 
either dead or wounded. Still Perry held out. Others fell around 
him, until only the commander and thirteen others were left uninjured. 

Meaiuvliile all the ships had become engaged — but the Niagara 
only at long range and ineffectively. Elliott, the captain of that 
vessel, perceiving that resistance from tlie Lawrence had ceased, now- 
sailed ahead believing that Perry had fallen and that the command had 
devolved on himself. It was at this juncture that Perry resolved 
upon that famous exploit which has made his name immortal. He 
pulled down his battle fiag, but left the Stars and Stripes still Boating! 
Then, with his brother Alexander and four of his remaining seamen, 
he lowered himself into the boat. He flung his pennant and battle dag 
over his arm and around his person, stepped into the boat, stood 
upright and ordered the men to pull for the Niagara. 

That vessels was more than a lialf-mile distant. It required the 
oarsmen fully fifteen minutes to make the passage. The boat had to 
pass in full exposure to the enemy's guns. The British at once per- 
ceived what was doing. As the smoke cleared from around the hull 
of the Lawrence they saw the daring act of the commander, trans- 
ferring his flag from one ship to another. His own vessel was shat- 
tered to death; but there was the Niagara, hale and strong. Should 
he succeed in making her deck, the battle would be to fight over again. 
Victory or defeat was turning on the issue. 

The British guns opened on the little l)oat. Discharge after dis- 
charge followed. Some of the shot struck the frail cockle, and the 
splinters flew; but the men were unhurt. Perry continued to stand up 
as a target until the faithful seamen refused to pull unless he would 
sink down to a position of greater safety. The shot from the enemy's 
guns knocked the water into spray around them, but the boat reached 
the Niagara in safety, and Perry was taken up. .\ moment more, and 
his battle Hag was flying above the unhurt ship! 

^lay every schoolboy and every schoolgirl in the lan<l read 
tlie rest of it; how, his foot upon the deck of the Niagara, his 
battle flag again flying at tlie fore. IVrry swooi)C(l like a hurricane 
down n])(i]i the eiUMiiy's line; cui tlic I'.ritidi ilcct in two, right 
in tlie middle, tlircc vessels on the right, thive u])on the left; 
broadside after broadside on eitlier liand ; death and destruction 
in his resistless wake. Tliirly iniiuites and all is over. The brave 
iMiglish commander, I'.arclay. Iiors dii combat. His second in 
command. iMiinis. killed outright. liunian nature could hold out 
no longer. Down comes the liritish flag. We had met the 
enemy and they were ours, "two ships, two brigs, one schooner 



and one sloop," said Perry in his report to Harrison, written 
upon the back of an old letter, his hat for a desk. 

The victor (again I quote from Ridpath ) did not in the 
elation of his triumph forget the situation around him. He 
caused himself to be transferred from the still unhurt Niagara 
back to the bloody deck of the Lawrence. There, and nol in 
some other place, would he receive the surrender of the enemy. 
The British officers as they came up to present their swords had 
to pick their way through dead and dying, slipping in pools of 
blood as they came. Perry bade his antagonists retain their 
swords, his the chivalry of one to whom the fortunes of war had 
given the power, but not the right, to humiliate a fallen foe. 

In the silence of the following night the dead sailors, British 
and American, were consigned to their last rest in the clear waters 
of Lake Erie. The next day Perry brought back to Put-in-Bay 
his own and the captured fleet. Sailing into the harbor, the dead 
officers of both commands were buried on the shore. The losses 
had been very great. On the American side twenty-seven were 
killed and ninety-six wounded — this out of a force' of but little 
over four hundred eiTective men. The loss of the British was 
forty-one killed and ninety-four wounded, the gallant Captain 
Barclay, who had already lost an arm, having the misfortune to 
lose the other. 

Great was the fame of the battle and of him who won it. 
It was the first time in history that an entire British fleet, large 
or small, had been taken in any open, equal conflict. Lake Erie 
was cleared. The way for Harrison and his braves, for Shelby 
and his^ hunting shirts, was opened, and forever and ever the 
Great Northwest, rid of invaders, was redeemed. 

A Inmdred years have come and gone — a hundred years of 
peace between the two nations of Anglo-Saxon and Scotch-Irish 
blood and tongue— and we are about to celebrate with fitting 
rites the heaven-blessed consummation. No wounds survive the 
Wars of the Revolution or of 1812. Each party to the strife 
showed itself a valiant. Each carried its trophies 'from the field, 
each has nursed its glories, not its griefs. Blood is thicker than 
water. On the 10th of September, 1913, we shall do honor alike 
to Barclay and to Perry, the monument over both a Monument 
of Peace. Thenceforward until the end of 1914, the centenary of 
the Treaty of Ghent, the jubilation will proceed, mutual 'and 
unabated. 




Louisville, Ky.,July 191 2. 



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THE PERRY MEMORIAL 

And Centennial Celebration 
1813 - 1913 

The project lo fittingly coninuinoratc, under national and 
state auspices, the one lunidredih amiiversary of the liattle of 
Lake Eric and of ( leneral William llenry Tlarrison's Xortlnvcst- 
ern campaign in the War of 1812, in connection with a suitahle 
recognition of the century of i)eace ensuing hetween (ireat 
r.ritain and the United States since the termination of that con- 
llict hy the signing of the Treaty of ( Ihent, Decemher 24th. 1814, 
required, from its heginning, the estahli.shment of new precedents 
and the adoption of new policies in the history of American expo- 
sitions and ])atriotic celehrations. The Conimixii.ners charged 
with the res])onsihility of planning an 1 ci msummating what was 
proposed to he done were confronted hy conditions never hefore 
encountered, and hy prohlems hitherto unsolved, in the conduct of 
enterprises of like cliaracter. 

It V\-as necessary to comhine state and national cooperation 
and resources for the success of the undertaking— hv no means an 
original policy; hut in this case only a limited numher of states, 
or those whose history was most intimatel_\- related to the {progress 
and results of the War of 1812, could reasonahly he appealed to, 
from the dual stand])oint of mutual interest and ex])ediency, to 
unite in the general scheme. These states, therefore, composed a 
sisterhood peculiar unto themselves. The aid of the National 
Government was recjuired to he supplementary lo their united 
efforts — a moral as well as a material endorsement of them — 
and hence there could he no heginning without concerted action 
on the part of certain great American Commonwealths, in some 
instances remote from one another and hound together in the 
enterprise only hy motives of unselfish patriotism. 

The states bordering on the Great Lakes were naturally those 
first regarded as essential to the conihination and nio>t li'kelv to 
enter intcj it. 

Rhode Island was the native state of Commodore Oliver 
Mazard Perry, the hero of the Battle of Lake Erie. an(i from this 
New England mother-country of the great X(irthwe>t had come 
many of the sailors who manned his fleet in that crucial conllict. 
as well as the artisans who were largely responsible for its 
building. 

Kentucky had furnished a large proportion of the soldiers 
in General Harrison's Northwestern campaign, the brilliant suc- 
cess of which hung upon the victory of the Rhode Island com- 
mander. Her contribution to the war had been an essential one 
in both generalship and numbers, and to its conclusion by the 



signing of the Treaty of ( ihent she had given the services of her 
(hstinguished son, Henr}- Clay, one of the American com- 
missioners. 

Both sentiment and the welfare of the centetniial project 
therefore suggested that Rhode Island and Kentucky should join 
with the Great Lakes States in whatever might be attempted as 
an inter-state and national commemoration of the triumph 
achieved b}- American valor in the Battle of Lake Erie. 

A second consideration, pointing to a centennial observance 
educational and fraternal in the broadest sense, presented itself in 
the conclusion of the century of peace between English-speaking 
peoples that would be practically contemporaneous with the one 
hundredth anniversary of Perry's Mctory : and from the inception 
of the centennial enterprise the opportunity of a union of British 
and American interests in the deepest significance of the proposed 
celebration, and in the dedication of a fitting permanent memorial, 
has been regarded by the commissioners of the participating 
states as the most appropriate and desirable object to be achieved 
bv them in connection with the general i)roiect. 




Lake Erie from the Site of the Perry Memorial. 

Still another departure, distinguishing the formal observance 
of this centenary from all other expositions, was the earlv resolu- 
tion of the commissioners that it should have no relation to com- 
mercialism : that industrial features should be entirelv al)sent in 
its consummation, and that in character and scope it should appeal 
primarily and exclusively to patriotic impulses, serving the pur- 
poses of a purely educational movement. 

Finally, a material problem was presented to the commis- 
sioners in the fact that the only appropriate location of the pro- 
posed Perry memorial, at the scene of the Battle of Lake Erie 
and within sight of the graves of the American and British 
officers who lost their lives in the engagement, together with the 
necessary centralization of commemorative exercises at that 
point, required the project to proceed without local financial 



support, but freed from tlie suggcstious of self-interest which 
have too often acc()ni|)anie(l tlic hoUHug of expositions and cele- 
l)rations in hirgcly populated communities. 

L'nder these conditions an organization of states was under- 
taken and lias continued to the present time. 

THE BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE 

There have Ijcen few combats on land or sea more tremend- 
ijus in their conse(|uences than the Battle of Lake l^rie. The 
heroism displayed on ])oth sides of that engagement vindicated 
the c|uality of ])ers()nal braver}- in l)Oth C(jmbatants and reuuires 
no eulogv here. 

Judged ])}■ nKjdern standards, and by not a few in remote 
periods of the history of war, that conflict, in respect to the loss of 
treasiu-e or ])recious human lives, cannot be regarded as among 
the most costly in the annals of naval warfare. Rut its well 
nigh incomparal)le ccjusecjuences make it one of the most remark- 
able of all naval victories. 

His early genius for organizatii >n and constructive leader- 
ship, combined with his youth, daring and devotion, made of 
Commodore Oliver Hazard 1 'err\- a romantic, as well as an 
heroic, figure ; but even in this respect he does not stand alone 
among the great sailors and great soldiers of many nations. The 
deepest significance of his triumph over the IJritish fleet on that 
fateful day of September 10, 1813, is to be found in the conse- 
(|uences that ensued from its brilliant consummation. 

After the division of the Xorthwestern Territory, General 
William Henr}- Harrison had been appointed governor of the 
new Territory of Indiana, including the present states of Indiana, 
Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. These states, joined'with C^hio, 
New "S^trk, I'enns^lvania, Alinnesota, Rhode Island and Ken- 
tuck\-. are now. after the lapse of one hundred years, the com- 
monwealths mo^t concerned in the liistorv of that period and at 
])rcsent united in the movement to a(le((uately observe its cen- 
tenary. 

( ieneral Harrison's commission as major-general, following 
his earlier participation in the hostilities against the British and 
Indians, enabled him to ])ush active operations in what was then 
known as the Sandusky Country. .\t Seneca Town, near Lower 
Sandusky Town, now the city of I'Temont, Ohio, he received 
Commodore Perry's laconic note. ])enned aboard the L^nited 
States brig "Niagara," ofif West Sister Island : 

"Dear (General: — \\'e have met the enemy and they are 
our> — two ships, two brigs, one schooner and a sloo])." 

Commodore l'err\' had accomplished, with the aid of his 
Rhode Lland craftsmen and the genius of Captain Daniel Dob- 
bins, who, more than any other one man, was responsible for the 
origin of the ex])edition. the extraordinar\- feat of building the 

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more important vessels of his fleet from tiie hewn timbers of the 
forests around Presque Isle, now Erie, Pennsylvania, and of 
launchnig them in the face of a British blockade. Four of the 
lesser ships had been purchased at Puftalo and two seized from 
the IJritish under the guns of Fort Erie, a British stronghold on 
the Canadian shore opposite Bufifalo, by Lieutenant Jesse D. 
Elliott, U. S. X., and a party of American artillerymen. The 
naval supremacy of the lakes was at stake in the crucial test of 
the war of 1812. From August 12 to September 10, 1813, Perry 
cruised Lake Erie in search of the enemy under command of 
Laptam Barclay. On the latter date the British fleet was descried 
as Perry's vessels lay quietly in the harbor of Put-in-Bay, and at 
once the daring American commander sailed forth to give battle. 
The brief but glorious story of the conflict that ensued is 
known to ever^- schoolboy. The Americans had the advantage 
m the number of their vessels; the I'.ritish, in the number and 
carrying power of their guns and a slight numerical superiority of 
seamen and officers. The "Lawrence," Perry's flagshii). was 
soon put out of commission by the long range fire of the enemy 
leaving only 18 out of her 1(31 officers and men not dead or 
disabled. _ From this blood}- wreck the dauntless Perry removed 
his flag, m a small boat under heavy fire, to the "Xiagara"— the 
most perilous half-mile dash in the history of nava! warfare. 
Bringing all his remaining fleet in action, the young American 
commander passed through the line of the enemy with successive 
broadsides at short range, and in the brief space of thirty minutes 
compelled the surrender of his entire force. 




Looking toward the Scene of the Battle of Lake Erie from the Site of the Perry MemoriaL 



The victory was complete, but not one man on either side 
could have foreseen the vast consequences of that day's work. 
The immediate result was the expedition which redeemed ^lichi- 
gan^ from British rule. Had Perry been defeated, General Harri- 
son's army would Jiave been isolated in the Sandusky Country of 
Ohio, impotent to strike a blow toward the north. 



SUPREME CONSEQUENCES. 

IVrry'.s \ictiiry enabled (icneral Harrison to embark his 
troops aboard the war-scarred American fleet, which had been 
launched at l"".rie harbor only a month before but had made endur- 
inj:;^ histor\- in thi> inci"edi]il\- brief ])eriod. S]:)arini^ time merely 
two days, to assemble the military forces on i 'ut-in-liay Kland. 
the American army set sail for Michigan. The city of Detroit 
was evacuated by the British, who were |)ur>ued into Canada and 
utterly routed at the battle of the Thames, October 5, when the 
Kentuck\- troops ])articularly distinguished themselves under 
the ccMumand of that eminent soldier and statesman, ( iovernor 
Isaac Shelby. From that sujM-eme hour of battle beyond I'ut-in- 
]'>ay harbor. September If), 1<S13, the destinies of the vast domain 
now C()m])rising the western section of Xew \'ork and the greater 
part of what is known as the Middle West and Northwest, were 
fixed forever within the boundaries of the American Union. 

broni an international standpoint I'errys \ictor\ won for 
American arms the respect of the world. It was notice to 
I'Lurope, and one never since unheeded, that the nation which 
was ba])tized in blood at Lexington was ampl\- able, as an infant 
republic, to care for herself on land and sea. It had a conclusive 
efifect, not only in terminating the war of 1812, but in establishing 
terms in respect to the future boundarv line between Canada and 
the United .States most favorable to the latter. 

THE TREATY OF GHENT. 

The Treaty of (ihent, signed in 1814 on the part of the 
United States by those distinguished American statesmen, John 
Quincy Adams, Henry Clay and Albert Gallatin, put an end to 
the war before the tidings could reach (ieneral Jackson at Xew 
Orleans in time to prevent the achievement of an American 
military \ictory (|uite as decisive as Perry's naval success in tlic 
IJattle of Lake Lrie. It was inevitable that the American com- 
missioners should claim, and the British concede, the supremacy 
of the (ireat Lakes which Perry had placed beyond question: 
and that supremacy exists today as it was then established. It 
presaged in the settlement of all boundar\- disputes the reteiuion 
by the United States of a princely domain, distributed between 
the great commonwealths already mentioned, bordering on 
the Great Lakes, which, together w^ith Rhode Island and Ken- 
tucky, are now joined in the movement in behalf of the l'err\'s 
Victory Centennial celebration during the summer of I'M,-? at 
Put-in- 1 '.ay Island and the dedication at that time of a permanent 
memorial to Commodore Perry and his men. 

The debt which our Lake States owe to l'err}-'s victor\- b\- 
reason of the establishment of their ]:)resent boundaries is em- 
phasized by the fact that the Treaty of (ihent whoUv ignored an\- 
attempt to settle the real cause of the war. the impressment of 

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American seamen. It is evident that the American commissioners 
regarded the boundary question as more important than the 
impressment question, notwithstanding the hitter had been the 
technical casus belli: and it is equahy evident that the British 
commissioners, with Perry's victory in mind, were wihing to 
waive boundary c|uestions that would have been insisted upon, if 
fate had crowned Captain Barclay, instead of Commodore Perry, 
as the hero of the battle of Lake Erie. 

In framing the Treaty of Ghent Great Britain solaced her 
honor by conceding no principle laid down by the United States 
in respect to the justice of the war from the American standpoint, 
but accepted the inevitable with reference to the boundary 
(juestion. 

And so Perry's Victory wrote the name of the United States 
of America high on the map of the Western Hemisphere. Thus 
it insured the unprecedented growth of our Great Lakes ports, 
with their vast commercial and industrial relations, under the 
American flag. Thus it gave to this sisterhood of states the agri- 
cultural and mineral riches of a territory second to none in the 
world, of equal extent, in the natural resources that denote 
Opportunity in the favored places of the earth. Thus it bound 
in the destiny of the Republic each noble commonwealth whose 
slightest border is laved by the lakes, welding the strongest links 
in the chain of our national progress and providing foothold and 
freedom for the develo])ment of American civilization. 

THE CENTENNIAL ORGANIZATION 

The first authoritative action looking to the proposed celebra- 
tion of the one hundredth anniversary of the battle of Lake Erie, 
of General Harrison's campaign and the ensuing centenary of 
peace between (^reat liritain and the United States, was very 
appropriately taken l)y the state of Ohio, within whose borders the 
battle was fought and its dead buried, in the waters of Lake Erie 
or by the picturesque shores of Put-in-Bay Island. In 1908 the 
Ohio General Assembly authorized the Governor to appoint five 
commissioners "to prepare and carrv out plans'" for a centennial 
celebration, and authorized the commissioners thus api^ointed by 
Governor Andrew L. Harris on June 22, 1908, to invite the co- 
operation therein of the Lake States and the Commonwealths of 
Rhode Island and Kentucky. During a period of two years fol- 
lowing, this invitation was accepted by the appointment of com- 
missioners, in the order named, by the states of Pennsylvania, 
Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin. New York, Rhode Island, Ken- 
tucky and Minnesota. Ohio, in three appropriation acts, appro- 
priated the total sum of $83,000 for the objects in view, and 
meanwhile Congress was appealed to for material support. In 
March, 1911, it appropriated $250,000, the bill meeting the instant 
approval of President Taft. The state appropriations up to and 

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PUT-IN-BAY HARBOR SHOHK LINK OF 

including l'H2. were as follows: Ohio. S83,000; Pennsylvania, 
S75.000; Wisconsin. 850,000; Rhode Island, $25,000; and Ken- 
tuck^•. 825,000. making a total availaljle from all sources of 
8508.000. 

During the legislative sessions of 1913 appropriations will 
he pending in the states of Michigan, Illinois. Xew York. 
Afinncsota and Indiana, in all of which proportionately generous 
responses are anticipated. The legislature of Louisiana has given 
the (j<)\'crnor authority to appoint three commissioners in order 
to expres> in a formal manner the interest of the people of that 
state in the ])ro])osed memorial and centennial celebration. 

At Tut-in-liay Island, September 10, I'UO. was effected the 
organization of the "Inter-State Board of the Perry's X'ictory 
Centennial ( 'ommi>sioners," which ha> since continued as the 
governing btxly of the enterprise. The present personnel of the 
organization effected at that time appears elsewhere in these 
pages. The general offices of the Inter-State Board are at Cleve- 
land, Ohio. 

In accordance with the act of Congress, President Taft 
appointed as the I'nited States Conuuissioners. Lieutenant ( ien- 
eral Nelson A. Miles, C S. A.. Retired. Rear Admiral Charles E. 
Clark, U. S. X.. Petirt'd. and ( ieneral j. Warren Keifer of Ohio, 
who are. in common willi the commissioners of the \ariiius states, 
members of the Inter-Stale Board. 

The Building Committee of the Perrv memorial consists of 
I 'resident-General George II. W'orihington, L'niled States Com- 



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THE SITE OF THE PERRY MEMORIAL. 

missioner Xelson A. Miles and First A'ice-President-General 
Henry W'atterson, with the Secretary-General of the Inter-State 
Board as Secretary. 

A'arious other committees have been duly constituted and 
have discharged their respective duties during the past two years. 
The most important of these are the Committee on Legislation, 
Promotion and Publicity, Commissioner A. E. Sisson, chairman, 
and the Committee on Centennial Celebration, Commissioner 
]\lilton AA'. Shreve, chairman. 

A CENTURY OF PEACE 

At the very inception of the preliminary organization a 
suggestion to fittingly celebrate the one hundredth anniversary 
of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent, by the National Govern- 
ment and all the states participating, was formally adopted ; and 
what is believed to have been the first official announcement of 
such an undertaking, in the United States or Great Britain, was 
set forth in the following words contained in the report of the 
Ohio Commissioners to the Governor of Ohio, filed lanuarv 
12. 1909: ■ ■ 

"Your commissioners are greatly impressed bv the 
fact that the centennial anniversary of Perry's \'ictory' 
will be practically contemporaneous with the conclusion 
of one hundred years of peace between the governments 
of Great P.ritain, Canada and the I'nited States, besfin- 
nmg with the signing of the Treatv of Ghent, December 
24, 1814, which terminated the W'ar of 1812. W'e are 



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thus confronted witli at least the possihihtx' ot' an inter- 
national event on ( )hiii soil, hardly five }ears lience. par- 
ticipated in l)y the l\\i> i;reat i£nglish-s])eaking nations of 
the world, under the highest official ans])ices. What 
could he more appropriate than an internal ii hi.iI celehra- 
tion of the conclusion of the centur_\- of peace hetween 
(ireat llritain, Canada and the United States, which has 
ensued since the signing of the Treaty of ( Ihent? Surelv 
that were hetter than a one-sided celehration of a victory 
of war; and we helieve that such a celehration would 
ha\e lasting iuHuence for good, while affording a spec- 
tacle worth}- of world-wide respect and emulation." 

The appropriateness of this suggestion was maiiifest. It 
was the Treaty of (ihent that preserved tlie nt'UtraHt\- of the 
( ireat Lakx-s for one hundred years and gave the civilized world 
its first ohject lesson in the practical)ility and efficacy of inter- 
national ])eace. i lerc, if anywhere, the honds that unite the two 
great I'Jighsli-speaking nations are symlxilized. Here all the 
interests of the L'nited States and Great Britain, material and 
sentimental, are concentrated within the area of the inland seas. 
Here the dead in the confiict. whose centenary it is now proj)ose(l 
to celebrate, were buried, llritihh and American alike, with funeral 
rites celebrated In- the representatives of both fleets, and here 
the peace of one hundred years has consecrated their sacrifices. 

The centennial commissioners therefore ahvavs maintained 
that any ade(|uate conception of an American memorial to the 
heroism of our sailors and soldiers in the War (^f 1X12 inu>t 
emphasize the e(|ual valor of our opponents in that conflict and 
commemorate the century of peace which has since blest humaniiv 
as the result of the statesmanship and patriotism w'hich inspired 
the signing and ratification of the Treat}- of (Ihent. 

THE PERRY MEMORIAL 

l'"roni the inception of the centennial enterprise to the present 
time the commissioners have always proposed that a permanent 
memorial overlooking the scene of the battle of Lake Erie an.d 
the graves of the British and American officers who particijiated 
in it slK)uld be their essential purjjose in achieving the objects for 
which they were appointed. Every suggestion of liistory and 
sentiment ])ointe(l to I 'utHn-l')a}' Island, Eake F.ric, ( )hi(j, as the 
logical site. 'I"he general character of the memorial to be erected 
was thus outlined in a report of the commissioners then acting, in 
December, 1909. 

"It is with a sense of solenui obligation that \-our 
ommissioners have considered the subject of an appro- 
])riate Perry memorial. Our own o])inion is fortified by 
imiversal jmblic sentiment to the effect that such a 
memorial must be permanent. It must not onl\- express 

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the patriotic desire of the American people to pay lasting 
tribute to their honored dead, but it must be in the 
highest sense artistic and historically suggestive. It must 
have, by reason of these qualities, a peculiar educational 
influence upon future generations, proceeding from its 
singular individuality. Better no memorial than an in- 
adequate or unworthy one. The motive that prompts 
our people to thus commemorate one of the most glorious 
events in our history and the Xation's subsequent prog- 
ress of a hundred years must be as broad as the Amer- 
ican Continent and as deep rooted as our inherent love 
of free institutions. Nothing less will suffice than a 
memorial truly national in character, taking rank among 
the worthiest of such structures in the world." 

The site of the memorial was acquired ])y the commissioners 
some time prior to the adoption of the design Anally agreed upon. 
It consists of a reservation of about fourteen acres in extent, 
with some fourteen hundred feet of water front on both sides, 
situated in the narrow neck of land at I'ut-in-Bav Island sub- 
stantially opposite Gibraltar Island and extending northward 
toward Middle Bass Island. It overlooks the waters of Lake 
Erie toward \\'est Sister Island, whence Commodore Perry sent 
his famous message to General Harrison, and in the verv shadow 
of the memorial will lie Gibraltar Island, where the American 
commander made his observations ; Ballast Island, where his 
fleet paused to obtain ballast from the rocky shores ; and the 
historic Bay which afforded it shelter. On the shore of this 
Bay, not far from the memorial site, are the graves of American 
and British officers killed ';i the battle of Lake Erie, and it is 
proposed that their remains shall be disinterred and find final 
resting places within the memorial when erected. It is fortunate 
indeed that Nature in her most generous mood has bestowed 
upon this spot attractions as beautiful as its historical suggestions 
are significant. 

The accepted design of the Perr}- memorial, by Mr. J. H. 
Freedlander and Mr. A. D. Seymour, Jr., of New York City, 
was adopted as the winner of the first prize in an architectural 
competition conducted at Washington, D. C, in January, 1912. 
under the auspices of the National Commission of Fine Arts. 
The finding of this commission was unanimous and was there- 
upon approved by the Inter-State Board of the Perry's Mctory 
Centennial Commissioners in session at A\'ashington. 

The competition was said by competent authority to have 
been the most remarkable in the history of this country, both in 
point of the number and merit of the designs submitted. Eight}- 
seven architects and architectural firms qualified to enter the 
competition under the terms of the program promulgated by the 
Building Committee, and fift}--four actually presented designs. 

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The latter were exhibited in tlie Xational ^^useum at Washing- 
ton, and the exhiljition as a wliole was the subject of the liighest 
expert approval and achniration. 

Tlie accepted design, when conifjleted as contemplated, will 
cover, with its plaza, alnio^t all of the reservation dedicated as 
a park to the memorial. Tlie ])laza. rising in a gradual ascent 
from the water's edge to the level height of 12 feet, is 738 feet 
long and 4^)1 feet wide. The Doric column in the center, as 
shown in the accompanying illustration, is ^35 feet in height, 
from the base to the light on the tripod surmotmting the cap, 

which is 300 feet high. 
with a spectators' gal- 
lery reached b\- elec- 
tric elevators from the 
crypt at the base, 
where the bones of 
the dead in the battle 
of Lake Erie will be 
interred. The column 
is 45 feet in diameter 
at the base and 35 
feet at the top — the 
highest monument in 
the world, with the ex- 
cejjtion of the Wash- 
ington monument at 
the Xational Capital. 
and the highest col- 
u]nn without excep- 
tion. The material 
used in the column 
will be granite. This 
column has been offi- 
cially declared by the 
Interstate Board as 
the Perry memorial, 
and the plaza and ad- 
jacent buildings are 
accessories thereto. 




'Perry's Lookout " and " Tlu- Needle's Eye," 
Gibralter Island. 



The building on the left, as shown in the illustration, is an 
historical museum containing a lloor space of 3,000 s(|uare feet, 
the building to the right is emblematic of the century of 



and 



peace between Great P.ritain and the I'niied States that will 
have enstied. within a brief period, since the signing of the Treaty 
of ( ihent on December 24th, 1814. 



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The parking of the grounds \vill Ix' in harmony with the 
beauty and (Hgnity of this architectural conception, every detail 
of which will appear with eciual charm to the eye from both sides, 
or from the waters of Put-in-JJay harbor westward and those of 
Lake Erie eastward. 

FOR HUMAN WELFARE 

The intention of the commissioners to convey to the 
National Government the title to the reservation containing the 
Perry memorial has for a long time caiggested that the property 
may be put to some practical use of great future benefit to 
humanity, aside from its significance as a reservation dedicated to 
history, art and progress. The site is an admirable one for the 
location of a wireless telegraph station capable of receiving and 
discharging messages over the whole chain of lakes, a life saving 
station and a meteorological bureau. Inasmuch as Put-in-Bay 
Island is the only island of the (ireat Lakes connected with the 
mainland by both telephone and telegraph, and is located almost 
in the geographical center of Lake Erie, the most treacherous 
of these waters, a central wireless telegraph station at this point 
would be able to communicate with all the life saving stations 
on the Great Lakes, including those not equipped with wireless. 

The losses of life from wrecks, which might be prevented 
under an adeciuate wireless system, average about 100 per year, 
and the losses of property about $1,000,000 per year. It is a 
noteworthy fact that safety of life on the ocean at the present 
time is very largely due to the wireless equipment of the navies 
of the world, in addition to that of the commercial fleets, whereas 
under the terms of the Treaty of Ghent there never can be 
extensive naval armaments of either Great Britain or the United 
States on the Great Lakes. It is needless to assert that every 
precaution must ultimately be taken to make navigation on the 
Great Lakes at least as safe as modern science has caused it to 
be on the ocean. 

Such practical adjuncts of the Perry memorial must be 
left to the cletermination of the National Government at such time 
as it may take possession of the property, but they suggest mean- 
while the possibility of the memorial combining the highest 
artistic ideals and historical significance with lastng practcal 
benefits to humanity. 

THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION 

The centennial celebration of the events proposed to be 
commemorated is by no means designed to be confined to Put- 
in-Bay Island, but will extend to all the principal ports on the 
Great Lakes and to such other cities in tlie states participating 
as may desire to locally commemorate the events of the War 
of 1812. The centennial period will extend from the Fourth of 

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Jul)- lo ihr lil'tli of Octol)cr. l''l.\ tlie latter date beiiit,^ the one 
Inindredtli anniversary of the battle of the Thames, w itli the cele- 
bration of the one liundrcdth ainiivcrsarv of l*err}"> \ ictor\ on 
the tenth day of September, 1913, centralized at Put-in-Uav 
l>l:in(l. 

Al no time or i:)lace is any industrial exposition conteni- 
])laled : but the commissioners have specifically announced that 
the enter] )rise. wherever its spirit may be emphasized, '"shall take 
the form of an historical, educational, niilitar)-, naval and 
])alriotic exposition." 

The niilitar\- aspect of the celebration, from an historical 
stand])oint, will take due cognizance of General I iarrison's march 
through Ohio to the Lakes, his encampment on the present site 
of Fremont, his embarcation on board I'errv's f^eet, his sojourn 
at T'ut-in-l'>ay. his entrance into Michigan, his liberation of Detroit 
and his invasion of Canada, culminating in the crowning success 
of his cam])aign at the Rattle of the Thames. The present 
physical boundaries of all the states bordering on the Great Lakes 




Lalie Erie Sliore Line of ttie Site of ttie Perry Memorial. 

are due to these military operations, which were rendered pos- 
sible by I'erry's \'ictor}-; and the commissioners have faith that 
the present generation of their citizens will welcome the oppor- 
tunity offered by the proposed series of celebrations to ])av 
tributt' to the heroes who thus laid the fotmdations of future 
greatness in the empires of the Middle West and Northwest. 

The vicinity of Camp I^erry, Ohio, the most extensix'e rifle 
range in the world, lo the various cities of tlie Great Lakes which 
will join in the series of celebrations, greatlv simplifies the problem 
f)f the assemblage and ti'ansportation of troops which ina\- par- 
ticipate in the local celebrations. At this ])oint also will occur 
during the summer f)f l''l.\ the most notable rifle range contests 
ever held in this country or lun'ope, including the International, 
the 1 'an-Aniericau and the American National contests. 

The naval aspect of the centennial, historicallv considered, 
gives ri>e to anticiiiatious ol one of the most uni(|ue and instructive 



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of national spectacles. The commissioners of the State of 
Pennsylvania have proposed to raise and restore the wreck of the 
flagship "Niagara," of Commodore Perry's fleet, which has lain 
for nearly a century at the bottom of the harbor of Erie, Pa. ; and 
this proposal has led the national and state commissioners to 
consider the temporary restoration of practically the whole of 
the American and British fleets engaged in the Battle of Lake 
Erie and to celebrate the unbroken peace which has existed for 
one hundred years between Great Britain and the United States 
by conveying the combined fleets to the principal ports on the 
Great Lakes, thus extending the patriotic celebration to the 
immediate interest and participation of hundreds of thousands 
of citizens who would otlierwise be deprived of its moral lessons. 

It is also proposed that L^nited States vessels of war, with 
consent of the British and Canadian governments, may enter 
the (jreat Lakes and participate in a naval review which is 
planned through the union of the naval militia of the several 
Lake States in such a spectacle. In itself such a modern review, 
held for the first time on fresh water, would awaken very wide- 
spread interest and be of great value to the L^nited States Navy 
by thus afi^ording the people of the great Middle West and 
Northwest an opportunity to realize the dignity, value and neces- 
sity of our National naval armament, while giving new energy 
and direction to American patriotism. 

In this connection the participation of the naval militia of 
the Great Lakes in the various local celebrations is a factor of 
the entire centennial enterprise that must be regarded as of 
primar\- importance'. P^rom these waters the .American Navy is 
largely recruited, and any object having in view the welfare of 
our inland naval militia is one which should appeal to the 
sympathy and support of the people of the entire country. 

THE COMMERCIAL MARINE PAGEANT 

From the standpoint of evolution in the arts of peace and 
the development of commerce, however, even greater significance 
may attach to the review of the shipping of the Great Lakes, 
surpassing in tonnage that of New York harbor or the com- 
merce of the Suez Canal, which it is proposed to organize as 
perhaps the most important marine display of the centennial 
celebration. 

Nothing could be more appropriate, more impressive or 
more indicative of the spirit pervading the whole enterprise than 
the assemblage in these waters, as a tribute to a century of 
progress, of the greatest commercial fleet in the w^orld, passing 
in review before the Chief Executive of the Nation and the 
official representatives of the states which today owe theii 
extensive boundaries to Perry's Victory. Such a display, it is 
believed, would be both a moral and material object lesson more 

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tnilv significant of American progress an;l of the real mission 
of our ])eoj)le among the nations of the earth than any review 
of warships or assemhlage of tlie enginery and etiuipment of war 
could be, at any time or place. 

The centennial i)eri()(l will al>o witness the greatest regatta 
ever held on fresh waters, marking the latest development of 
American invention an<l skill as related to all t_\pes of pleasure 
craft. 

INTERESTS OF EDUCATION 

The commissioners have constantly borne in mind, however, 
the essential historic, educational and patriotic as|)ects of the cen- 
tennial enterprise. Since the usual features of an industrial 
exposition are entirely absent in what is proposed to be achieved, 
except onlv in respect to the shi])ping interests of the Great Lakes, 
the successful conclusion of the project will involve no such great 
expense as is commonly associated in the public mind with the 
word "exposition," and the resources and energies of the com- 
missioners and of the communities engaged in the various cele- 
brations may be conserved for the promotion of patriotic and 
educational objects only. 

The great number of historical, scientific, art, fraternal, 
political, patriotic, commercial and other societies and organiza- 
tions, and the important educational institutions, all of which 
fiourish in their various fields of usefulness within the states 
])articipating in the centennial, may be relied upon to give the 
liighest value to the educational program during the centennial 
period of 1913 at J'ut-in-Bay Island and in all the cities joined 
in the celebration. In this manner the educational heritage of 
the celebration will be handed down to posterity, while the 
patriotic lesson it must impart will be permanently expressed in 
the memorial erected in honor of the heroes of the Battle of Lake 
Erie on both sides of the conflict and in commemoration of the 
century of peace between the two greatest nations. 

CELEBRATIONS BY MUNICIPALITIES 

The suggestion to extend the celebration of the centenary 
under consideration to all the centers of population on the Great 
Lakes, and to such other large cities as may desire to take advan- 
tage of the opportunity to join with them in a series of notable 
patriotic demonstrations, has met with very general favor. It is 
])roposed to divide the centennial period of July 4th to October 
.^th, 1913, between the cities entering upon the general plan, 
devoting one week to each municij)ality. 

From an economic standpoint the merging of the resources 
of all the cities for celebration jnirposes, in part at least, in one 
fund, under the direction of the general plan of organization, 
has distinct advantages. By the adoption of this scheme each 

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city in the chain of those celebratins"- will liaxc ihc advantaee of 
attractions which no city could assemble upon its own initiative 
and exclusively for its own benefit. 

The centennial fleet, escorting the restored "Niagara, " will 
visit in rotation all the ports of the Great Lakes joining in the 
series of celebrations during the summer of 1913. The same 
marine pageants and the same military ceremonies may be pro- 
tluced in each city, accompanied by such local ceremonies and 
additional attractions as may be determined upon by the different 
communities. In this manner, where one city for a single celebra- 
tion might raise a fund of $50,000 or $100,000 for the objects in 
view, each city uniting with its sister city, as is here indicated, 
would have the benefit of the spectacles presented by an organiza- 
tion representing an investment of from $200,000 to 5^400,000. 




PhotoKraph from a Model of the Perry Memorial by Menconi Brothers of New York. 
Copyright, 1912, by the Perry's Victory Centennial Commission. 

The advantages of this plan have appealed emphatically to 
the organized bodies in the various cities interested to which they 
have already been presented, with the result that at this wi^-Jng 
(August, 1912) preliminary or permanent organizations looking to 
such a union of interests are in existence in such leading cities as 
Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo, Detroit, [Milwaukee, Toledo, Erie. 
Pa., and Sandusky, O. An effective scheme of co-operation will 
present! V be presented by the state and national commissioners to 
the representatives of such cities, whose boards of trade, chambers 
of commerce, historical societies, industrial organizations and 
educational institutions are urged to manifest proper interest in 
the enterprise, to the end that it may result in a series of patriotic 
demonsinitions unequaled in this country and calculated to be of 
lasting benefit to posterity. 

The series of celebrations that have already been determined 
upon will conclude with a week of patriotic demonstrations and 



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educational exercises in the city of Louisville, Ky.. with the 5th 
of October, 1913. the one hundredth anniversary of the Battle of 
the Thames, in which the Kentucky troops exhibited such mem- 
orable valor, as the central day. We have tlierefore in this 
project an opportunit}- not only to signalize the jirogress of 
the great ^Middle West and Northwest during the past century, 
with friend]}- intent toward our brethren on the other side of 
the Canadian border, but also the prospect of extending the sig- 
nificance of the celebration far to the soiuliward, effecting a 
union of interest between sections of this coinUry remote from 
one ancjther but indissolubly Ixmnd together Ijy mutual ties of 
j)atriotism and brotherhood. 

BUREAU OF PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTIONS 

Aside from the cost of the various local celebrations and 
the general expense of promoting the erection of the Perry 
Memorial and the organization of aft'airs incident thereto, for 
which the national and state commissioners will be held respon- 
sible, there is no likelihood tliat the direct appropriations from 
national and state governments will suffice for the completion 
of the memorial, including the Peace Ijuilding dedicated to inter- 
national amit\'. With this fact in mind the Inter-State Board 
has organized a bin-eau of public subscriptions and placed it 
under the direction of Financial Secretary Mackenzie R. Todd, 
a member of the Kentucky commission, with headciuarters in the 
general offices at Cleveland. 

It is believed that, notwithstanding generous support of the 
general project b}' the states participating in the centennial, the 
])ubilc should not be deprived of the opportunity to render prac- 
tical and substantial aid to an object so worth}-. It is felt that 
the F'erry INIemorial and all its adjuncts will mean more to the 
people of this country if built in part directly b}- them, than 
could be the case if its construction were limited to the resources 
devoted thereto by state and national appropriations. And it is 
recalled that most (^f the great memorials of the world have been 
erected in greater pari b} private means. 

Believing that no niemorial in this country could appeal 
with greater symi:)ath}- to tlie American spirit than oi-ie dedicated 
to the sacrifices of otu- forefathers in the War of 1812. and to 
the past and future ]:)eace of the world, the commissioners hojx' 
for a widespread and generous recognition of the opportunity 
afforded bv their i'.ureau of Public Subscriptions to all individuals 
and organizations inclined to co-operate with them. 

The apjieal oi the commissioners for the fating consun-inia- 
tion of all the objects in view is an appeal to the patriotism of 
the American people. 



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The Inter-State Board 

of the Perry's Victory Centennial 

Commissioners 



President-General 

GEORGE H. WORTHINGTON, Cleveland, Ohio 

First Vice-President-General Secretary-General 

HENRY WATTERSON, Louisville, Ky. WEBSTER P. HUNTINGTON, Cleveland, 0. 

Treasurer-General Auditor-General 

A. E. SISSON, Erie, Pennsylvania HARRY CUTLER, Providence, R. I. 



Ohio 

Pennsylvania 

Michigan 

Illinois 

Wisconsin 

New York 

Rhode Island 

Kentucky 

Minnesota 



STATE VICE-PRESIDENTS 

Horace Holbrook 

Edwin H. Vare 

Roy S. Barnhart 

General Philip C. Hayes 

Rear Admiral F. M. Symonds, U. S. N. (Ret.) 

Henry Harmon Noble 

Sumner Mowry 

Colonel Andrew Cowan 

W. H. Wescott 



Warren 

Philadelphia 

Grand Rapids 

Joliet 

Galesville 

Essex 

Peacedale 

Louisville 

Rosemount 



Ohio 

Pennsylvania 

Michigan 

Illinois 

Wisconsin 

New York 

Rhode Island 

Kentucky 

Minnesota 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 

The General Officers, ex-officio, the United States Commissioners 

and 

John H. Clarke Cleveland 

Milton W. Shreve Erie 

George W. Parker Detroit 

William Porter Adams Chicago 

A. W. Sanborn Ashland 

Clinton Bradford Herrick, M. D. Troy 

John P. Sanborn Newport 

Mackenzie R. Todd Frankfort 

J. Edward Meyers Minneapolis 

Financial Secretary, Mackenzie R. Todd 



COMMISSIONERS 

For the United States Government— Lieutenant-General Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A., ( Ret. ) Wash- 
ington, D. C; Rear Admiral Charles E. Clark, U. S. N., (Ret.) Washington, D. C; General J. 
Warren Keifer, Springfield, Ohio. 

Ohio — George H. Worthington. Cleveland; John H. Clarke, Cleveland; S. M. Johannson, Put-in Bay; 
Eli Winkler, 1st National Bank Building, Cincinnati ; Horace Holbrook, Warren ; William C. 
Mooney, Woodsfield; Horace L. Chapman, Columbus; George W. Dun, Toledo. 

Pennsylvania— A. E. Sisson, Erie; Edwin H. Vare, Philadelphia; Milton W. Shreve, Erie; T. C. 
Jones, McKeesport; George W. Neff, M. D., Masontown. 

Michigan— Arthur P. Loomis, Lansing; Roy S. Barnhart, Grand Rapids; E. K. Warren, Three 
Oaks : George W. Parker, Detroit. 

Illinois— General Philip C. Hayes, Joliet ; William Porter Adams, 726 Washington Boulevard, Chi- 
cago; Willis J. Wells, 1006 South Michigan Boulevard, Chicago; Chesley R. Perry, 1207 Fort 
Dearborn Building, Chicago; W. H. Mcintosh, Rockford. 

Wisconsin— John M. Whitehead, Janesville; A. W. Sanborn, Ashland; C. B. Perry, Wauwatosa; 

S. W. Randolph, Manitowoc; Louis Bohmrich, Milwaukee; Sol P. Huntington, Green Bay; Rear 

Admiral Frederick M. Symonds, U. S. N., ( Ret. ) Galesville. 
New York— William Simon, Buffalo; George D. Emerson, Buffalo; John T. Mott, Oswego; Clinton 

Bradford Herrick, M. D., Troy ; Henry Harmon Noble, Essex. 

Rhode Island — John P.Sanborn, Newport; Louis N. Arnold, Westerly; Sumner Mowry, Peacedale; 
Henry E. Davis, Woonsocket; Harry Cutler, Providence. 

Kentucky — Colonel Henry Watterson, Louisville; Colonel Andrew Cowan, Louisville; Samuel M. 

Wilson, Lexington; Colonel R. W. Nelson, Newport; Mackenzie R. Todd, Frankfort. 
Minnesota — W. H. Wescott, Rosemount; J. Edward Meyers, Minneapolis; Ralph W. Wheelock, St. 

Paul ; Milo B. Price, Owatonna ; William D. Windom, Washington, D. C. 



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